Stephen Mayne and the perils of crossing a picket

When journalist, shareholder advocate and former Melbourne City Councillor Stephen Mayne decided to submit a story to The Age on the Melbourne City Council budget and Tweet proudly about his story just after Fairfax journos had walked out in protest over redundancies, Dr Mumbo reached for the popcorn.

The response was almost immediate from one of the Fairfax team standing on the picket.

But Mayne was confident in his position.

Judgement was swift.

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But Mayne held firm and as the tweet stream audience grew the hounds of social media were unleashed.

And so it went, Mayne then turning his eye to The Age’s lack of local political coverage.

The defence continued, with Mayne noting he too had few outlets for his work.

It is remarkable that Mayne has managed for so long to be a media hero when in fact he has demonstrated very many times that he is both a narcissist and a backstabber. Hopefully this effort will finally cruel his appeal.

I kind of agree that the strike is too long.
Journos have been sitting pretty for a long time, while the rest of us in the real world deal with job insecurity, market pressures and regular job losses.
The newspaper business model is basically f***d – and striking won’t help that situation.
That said though, I do worry about a world with no decent journalism.

Stephen is a pissant. Some days he plays capitalist logician. Other days he is the caped lefty crusader. These days he forgets which. Hence the confusion.
As he gets more unwanted and desperate I predict nude runs at the AFL grand final.

As you’ve embedded screenshots rather than the tweets I don’t have the pleasure of educating Peter Logue that bankrupting Fairfax or not producing content is probably not the best way to stick it to Rupert Murdoch.